The content of the man pages is arranged in a highly technical fashion. To be blunt, man pages can seem impenetrable to the neophyte. One important facet of man pages is the way in which they are laid out. There are sections: NAME, DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, FILES and BUGS are some standard ones. These can be helpful: if you just want to locate the program's configuration files, type:

/FILE

in the man commands page to search forward for the FILES section and the answer should be there. When man pages refer to other man pages (which they often do) they say something like

see kill(2)

This means that the page for 'kill' it is referring to is in section 2 of the manual. There is more than one kill man page, do a

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